Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulties of defending the Canal have been apparent. The secretaries believe that the defenses must be improved. But a gentleman who arrived from France last week proposed a plan which would take out by the root many difficulties of Canal defense. Lieutenant Colonel Phillippe Bunau-Varilla, engineer, editor, diplomat soldier of fortune, veteran of the World War, in which he lost a leg, and coworker of Ferdinand de Lesseps who almost built the Panama Canal French private companies, has come back to his first love. He wants to substitute a billion-dollar, sea-level strait, 1,000 feet wide...
Royal S. "Copeland, junior Senator from New York: "From Washington, I broadcast a diagnosis of the condition which caused guests of the Silk Association of America at a dinner in Manhattan to hiss me when I declared for tax reduction and soldier bonus too. Said I: 'They hissed and booed, blatted and squealed like a barnyard filled with frightened cattle, geese and swine. It is a most interesting example of mass hysteria. I never more enjoyed a clinic in mental nervous diseases. . . Children who act one-tenth as bad are punished...
...meeting was conspicuous by the lack of military splendor which has marked former conferences. It was said that not one uniformed soldier was present...
Outward Bound. Extravagant reports drifting in from London that this strange fancy-said to have originated in the bewildered imaginings of a shell-shocked soldier-is a masterpiece of modern dramatic literature, tended to irritate the Great American Sceptic. A severe first-night audience came to be shown, possibly to scoff. They remained, some of them literally, to pray...
Major John Hay Beith, the British author and soldier well-known as Ian Hay, states the case against pacifism with great justice and forbearance. As a rule, military men do not hesitate to condemn pacifists in strong and unmistakable language. Major Beith discusses the effects of non-resistance with becoming restraint and logic. But there are still several loose ends...